{"id":72807,"date":"2022-03-02T07:57:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T05:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=72807"},"modified":"2022-03-03T20:02:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T18:02:39","slug":"4-177","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/environmental-news-en\/4-177\/","title":{"rendered":"Novel processes Send Apple Waste Packing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A new study by researchers at Oregon State University details a key advance in turning apple waste into an environmentally friendly packaging material that could serve as an alternative to plastic. The researchers report their advance in a paper in Food and Bioproducts Processing. Recycled newspaper has traditionally been the main ingredient of so-called molded pulp packaging products, which have become increasingly popular because they are compostable. But the supply of recycled newspaper is in decline, creating a market for substitute materials.<\/p>\n<p>Yanyun Zhao, a professor at Oregon State University who leads a research team focusing on sustainable food packaging and processing, has investigated replacing the recycled newspaper in molded pulp packaging with apple pomace and other by-products from processing fruit and vegetable juice. She has received a patent for this research. One of the key problems to solve for pomace- and paper-based packaging is improving its water resistance so the packaging can deal with high moisture, liquid food or non-food items, and products stored under high humidity conditions. This inspired the team to create eco-friendly, bio-based, compostable and cost-effective solutions that would improve the hydrophobicity, or water resistance, of the apple pomace-based molded pulp products.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers concluded that their study demonstrated the feasibility of using fruit pomace as a new source of fiber in producing molded pulp packaging and identified effective approaches for enhancing water resistance in those packaging materials.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.materialstoday.com\/biomaterials\/news\/novel-processes-send-apple-waste-packing\/\">Materials Today<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A new study by researchers at Oregon State University details a key advance in turning apple waste into an environmentally friendly packaging material that&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,11659],"tags":[14192,984,117],"class_list":["post-72807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environmental-news-en","category-science-news","tag-apple-waste","tag-packaging","tag-plastic","wpcat-31-id","wpcat-11659-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/apple-256268_1280.jpg?fit=100%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72807"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73087,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72807\/revisions\/73087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}